Ester 3:13

Filipino Cebuano Bible

13 Ug ang mga sulat gipadala sa correo ngadto sa tanang mga lalawigan sa hari, aron sa paglaglag, sa pagpatay, ug sa pagpoo, sa tanang mga Judio, batan-on ug tigulang, mga kabataan nga gagmay ug mga babaye, sulod sa usa ka adlaw, bisan sa ikapulo ug tolo ka adlaw , sa ikanapulo ug duha ka bulan, nga mao ang bulan sa Adar, ug sa pagkuha sa tanan nila nga mga inagaw alang sa usa ka salakmiton.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by posts: Esther 8:10, Esther 8:14, 2 Chronicles 30:6, Job 9:25, Jeremiah 51:31, Romans 3:15

both young: 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 22:19

in one day: Esther 8:12-14, James 2:13

the spoil: Esther 8:11, Esther 9:10, Isaiah 10:6

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 30:10 - the posts Ezra 6:15 - Adar Esther 7:4 - to be destroyed Esther 8:5 - letters Esther 8:9 - and to the lieutenants Esther 9:22 - the days Psalms 124:3 - Then they Jeremiah 25:10 - take from Lamentations 2:21 - young Daniel 3:3 - captains Acts 12:4 - intending

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the letters were sent by post into all the king's provinces,.... Or by the runners x; by which it seems as if these letters were carried by running footmen, men swift of foot; or rather they were running horses, on which men rode post with letters, and which the Persians called Angari; a scheme invented by Cyrus, for the quick dispatch of letters from place to place, by fixing horses and men to ride them at a proper distance, to receive letters one from another, and who rode night and day y, as our mail men do now; and nothing could be swifter, or done with greater speed; neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night, could stop their course, we are told z: the purport of these letters was,

to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar; see Esther 3:7. The orders were to destroy, by any means whatsoever, all the Jews, of every age and sex, all in one day, in all the provinces which are here named, that they might be cut off with one blow: and to take the spoil of them for a prey; to be their own booty; which was proposed to engage them in this barbarous work, to encourage them in it to use the greater severity and dispatch.

x ביד הרצים "in manu cursorum", Montanus; so the Tigurine version, Drusius, V. L. Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. y Xenophon. Cyropaedia, l. 8. c. 43. z Herodot. Urania, sive, l. 8. c. 98.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Present, the Jews keep three days - the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th of Adar - as connected with “the Feast of Purim;” but they make the 13th a fast, commemorative of the fast of Esther Esther 4:16, and keep the feast itself on the 14th and 15th of Adar.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 3:13. To destroy, so kill, and to cause to perish — To put the whole of them to death in any manner, or by every way and means.

Take the spoil of them for a prey. — Thus, whoever killed a Jew had his property for his trouble! And thus the hand of every man was armed against this miserable people. Both in the Greek version and in the Latin the copy of this order is introduced at length, expressing "the king's desire to have all his dominions in quiet and prosperity; but that he is informed that this cannot be expected, while a certain detestable people are disseminated through all his provinces, who not only are not subject to the laws, but endeavour to change them; and that nothing less than their utter extermination will secure the peace and prosperity of the empire; and therefore he orders that they be all destroyed, both male and female, young and old," &c.